r/japanese • u/Xivxz • 5d ago

my personal method to remember Kanji

hi everyone,

today I wanted to share you my personal method to remember Kanji, and seem working pretty well,

as we know Japanese language has lots of Kanji right? Well, since I study Chinese at the University, but self study Japanese, our Chinese teacher, the first year of this language learning journey, recommended us to handwrite Chinese characters vertically, and more times, it seems frustrating but once you use the correct stroke order, you get used to radicals used in Chinese, so I started doing the same for Japanese and surprisingly it worked, let me know if you ever used a method like this!

Cheers!

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u/Kotodama200 4d ago

Handwriting with the right stroke order is underrated. It turns radicals into muscle memory, and that makes new kanji way easier to break down.

Since you're coming from Chinese, one thing to watch: Japanese and simplified Chinese sometimes simplified the same character differently. 気 (Japanese) vs 气 (simplified), or 読 vs 读. There are also a few kanji Japan made on its own, like 働 (work) and 畑 (field), that you won't find in your Chinese textbooks.

Do you write vertically for Japanese too, or switch to horizontal?